In full Pamela Anderson swimsuit regalia,
Today anchorman Matt Lauer made a slow yet startling run yesterday through Rockefeller
Plaza in New York as a Halloween homage to the
Baywatch star. Willie Geist (as co-star David Hasselhoff) and Carmen Electra (as her
character) joined Lauer in the lifeguard scenario as part of “Throwback Thursday Halloween.”

“It’s distractingly strange,” co-host Carson Daly said of the costume, noting that the fake
breasts looked “alarmingly real on you” while Lauer jumped up and down to prove they wouldn’t
budge.

“I hope your son Jack’s not watching,” weatherman Al Roker said.

In keeping with the classic-TV theme, Roker dressed up as Mr. T from
The A-Team, while hosts Savannah Guthrie and Natalie Morales conjured up the stars of
Laverne & Shirley, and Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb made like a top-notch Betty
and Wilma from
The Flintstones.

And, on
The View, that jester Jenny McCarthy appeared as Miley Cyrus’ tongue.

Other eye-openers

• A jury found Max Wade, 19, guilty of stealing a Lamborghini belonging to celebrity chef Guy
Fieri from a San Francisco dealership. Wade rappelled into British Motor Car Distributors to
purloin the $200,000 convertible in 2011, prosecutors said. The sentencing is set for Dec. 16.

• Family members of soul singer Marvin Gaye are suing R&B artists Robin Thicke and
Pharrell Williams for copyright infringement, accusing them of stealing from the Gaye song
Got To Give It Up for their
Blurred Lines. The suit represents a counterclaim to a case filed pre-emptively in August
by Thicke and Williams.

• NBA player Tony Parker and his fiancee, Axelle Francine, are expecting a son.